The night sky over Microsoft’s headquarters campus in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft will take a $900 million charge in its current quarter for its one-time voluntary retirement program, the company disclosed in its earnings report Wednesday. Just to put that in...
Amazon Web Services growth accelerated to 28% in the first quarter — its fastest pace in nearly four years — pushing Amazon’s results past Wall Street’s expectations and validating, at least for now, the company’s controversial $200 billion capital spending plan. Overall, Amazon posted sales...
Microsoft’s Azure cloud business accelerated in the March quarter, growing 40% and topping the company’s own forecast, giving the tech giant a new answer to questions about its ability to translate record capital spending on AI infrastructure into stronger financial results. The company’s...
(BigStock Image) Editor’s note: Bill Hilf is the former CEO of Vulcan/Vale Group, current board chair of Ai2 and American Prairie, and the author of the new sci-fi novel,”The Disruption,” which explores the topics of AI and natural ecosystems. He spoke about the book on the GeekWire Podcast, and...
Angus Norton. (LinkedIn Photo) — Former Microsoft and Amazon exec Angus Norton is now CEO of Inteum, an IP management platform for university technology transfer offices. Norton joins the Kirkland, Wash.-based company from Bodhi Venture Labs, an executive services firm focused on product...
Flying Fish Partners’ Geoff Harris, Frank Chang and Heather Redman. (Flying Fish Photo) The venture world is still digesting the eye-popping debut of London-based Ineffable Intelligence, the new startup from DeepMind legend David Silver, which announced $1.1 billion in funding at a $5.1 billion...
Zap Energy’s fusion device creates a purplish glow from its hydrogen plasma. (Zap Photo) Zap Energy announced plans Wednesday to become the first company to simultaneously pursue two tracks for nuclear power: fusion, an unproven but promising technology that smashes light atoms together to...
(Official UWOTC-CWA image) The team developing a video game based on Magic: The Gathering announced on Tuesday that they’ve unionized, describing the move as part of an attempt to improve working conditions at Renton, Wash.-based Wizards of the Coast and create better games. United Wizards of...
AWS CEO Matt Garman at the event Tuesday. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon moved quickly Tuesday to capitalize on OpenAI’s new relationship status with Microsoft, launching a preview of OpenAI’s models on its Bedrock platform less than 24 hours after the ChatGPT maker was...
Amazon Connect Talent shows recruiters anonymized candidate scores rather than names or resumes. (Amazon Image) SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon manages more than 400 million products in its supply chain and hired 250,000 seasonal workers last peak season. Now its cloud division is packaging up what the...
Screenshots of Truveta Intelligence, showing the query interface and sample results analyzing GLP-1 drug uptake trends. (Truveta Images) Truveta wants to give healthcare researchers something that has long eluded them: the ability to ask a question about real-world patient data and get an answer...
Sniffies about page. (Screenshot) Sniffies, a Seattle-based meetup platform for gay, bisexual and sexually curious men, has landed a $100 million investment from Match Group. The deal gives Match a significant minority ownership stake in the Grindr competitor, along with an option to acquire the...
Mike Katz, T-Mobile’s chief business and product officer, speaks at an event last year highlighting the company’s longstanding satellite partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) T-Mobile is boosting its footprint as a business internet provider, expanding further beyond...
Amazon reports first-quarter earnings Wednesday amid accelerating cloud growth and a record capital spending plan. (GeekWire File Photo) Follow-up: AWS growth climbs to 28% as Amazon’s big AI bets start to pay off Amazon reports first-quarter earnings Wednesday with more signs than ever that...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, and President Greg Brockman as photographed through the windows of the federal courthouse in Oakland as they arrived for jury selection in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. (GeekWire Photos / Todd Bishop) OAKLAND — Did Microsoft knowingly...
A crowd of lawyers and reporters waits outside the U.S. Courthouse in Oakland for the start of jury selection Monday in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman, OpenAI and Microsoft. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) OAKLAND — Microsoft and OpenAI announced a major amendment to their partnership...
Oprah Winfrey’s video podcast will be available across Amazon platforms. (Wondery Photo) Amazon has landed talk show queen Oprah Winfrey and her video podcasts for its suite of streaming services. “Long before the term ‘creator’ existed, Oprah was building a direct and deeply personal...
Tin Can co-founder and CEO Chet Kittleson. (Tin Can Photo) Jimmy Kimmel was riffing on presidential social media habits last week when he offered a suggestion that doubled as an unscripted product endorsement. “I wonder if they’ve considered getting him one of those Tin Can phones like the...
Follow-up: Microsoft tops Wall Street expectations, reports accelerating Azure growth and $37B AI run rate The last time Microsoft reported earnings, it seemed to do everything right, at least by the traditional metrics. Revenue was up 17%, profits soared 24%, and the company’s closely...
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Clippy almost deserves an apology, now that we’ve seen what came next. (Original cartoon: Amadeo Garcia III for GeekWire) Longtime GeekWire readers might recognize my byline from my frequent coverage of the PNW’s video game industry, as well as occasionally dipping into the arts. I am also not a...
Bill Hilf, board chair of the Allen Institute for AI and American Prairie, and author of the new novel “The Disruption.” (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Bill Hilf has spent decades working inside some of the biggest names in tech — bringing open source software into Microsoft when it was heresy,...
Qualtrics is based in Provo, Utah, and downtown Seattle (above). (GeekWire File Photo) Qualtrics CEO Jason Maynard shook up the company’s senior leadership team on Friday at its dual headquarters in downtown Seattle and Provo, Utah, less than three months after taking the helm of the experience...
Derek Andersen. (Expedia Photo) — Expedia Group named Derek Andersen as its new chief financial officer starting May 11. He succeeds Scott Schenkel, who is stepping down after more than two years in the role. The Seattle-based travel giant hired Andersen from Snap, the company behind...
An AWS Graviton chip. (Amazon Photo) Facebook parent Meta signed a deal to use Amazon’s Graviton chips for agentic AI, the latest indication of growing demand for the tech giant’s growing silicon business. Bloomberg reports that the deal is worth billions of dollars over multiple years. It...
Mikaela Kiner’s new book is “The Reverb Way: How to Build a Thriving Business Without Sacrificing It All.” (Photo courtesy Mikaela Kiner) The dreamy part of Mikaela Kiner‘s life is easy to picture. She has spent her recent winters working from a small Costa Rica beach town, taking surfing...
The new Xbox logo, featuring glass effects, part of the “We Are Xbox” strategy shift. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft is changing the way it measures success in its Xbox business, focusing on daily active players rather than longer periods of time — a tighter measure that reflects the way the...
TerraPower is celebrating the start of construction on its nuclear plant in Kemmerer, Wyo. (TerraPower Photo) TerraPower announced Thursday that it has started construction on its Natrium plant, making it the first company in the U.S. to break ground on an advanced nuclear power...
Rec Room gift cards in a retail kiosk in Seattle. The social gaming platform, which is shutting down June 1, experienced a previously unreported brute-force attack on its friend-finder feature earlier this year that linked user phone numbers to their online identities. (GeekWire Photo / Todd...
Time to hang it up? Microsoft will be giving some employees that chance. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is offering a one-time voluntary retirement program for the first time in its 51-year history, giving thousands of long-serving U.S. employees a chance to leave with a financial...
Editor’s Note: Nick Hanauer is a Seattle entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and founder of Civic Ventures. He was an early investor in Amazon and is co-founder of Second Avenue Partners. This piece is a reply to Chris DeVore’s “Make Democracy Capitalist Again.” Nick Hanauer. (Civic Ventures...
Iridius CEO and co-founder Mike Kropp. (Iridius Photo) Many companies in regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals are pouring money into AI. But a lot of that work ultimately doesn’t see the light of day, due to the compliance, validation, and audit requirements that govern every system they...
Prasad Kalyanaraman, VP of AWS Infrastructure Services, has been named to Amazon’s senior leadership team. (Amazon Photo) Amazon added a new member to its senior leadership team Wednesday, naming AWS infrastructure chief Prasad Kalyanaraman to the group known as the S-team or “steam,” while also...
New LinkedIn CEO Daniel Shapero, left, and Ryan Roslansky, EVP of LinkedIn and Microsoft Office, at LinkedIn headquarters. (LinkedIn Photo) LinkedIn has a new CEO for the first time in six years. Daniel Shapero, the company’s chief operating officer since 2021, is stepping into the top job,...
(BigStock Photo) A new scorecard rating school cellphone policies nationwide gave Washington state and four others a failing grade. Washington lacks statewide rules setting limits on phone use in the classroom and on campus, allowing districts to set their own policies. The rankings, first...